Quote from essayist: “Had I not created my whole world I would certainly have died in other people's."

Cheering for you. Hope it goes well.

right, and they drive Maseratis and they don't have to care about anything cause they have no problem paying someone $200,000 a year to live in their house and be a private chef.

Yeah, see? it's maddening and I don't know why people aren't screaming at the BoS all the time and saying "this is ridiculous. Why do we allow this?"

Me next to singer Michelle Branch

Yep. I have one of the cheapest flats in the area and I am terrified. Talking of events, here's me with singer Michelle Branch. :)

Like, I genuinely enjoy living in this area, but holy shit the dysfunction is unreal.

I see shit like this and am glad I moved to Oakland hahaha.

as if housing in SF wasn't insufferable enough already.

almost a year unemployed.... whee...

Appreciate your answers. :)

How is this not just even more of the tail wagging the dog?

btw, obviously a huge fan of your work and @olafurw.com

logic-math I was good at. I took formal logic and got a B. :D

yeah, I did some stuff in C# but I never could do stuff under time pressure because browser IDEs suck so bad.

I was born with dyscalculia so that was another disadvantage I never figured out, and hugely ironic, considering.

Yeah, I always feel bad I was never good at leetcode cause I don't have time to get good at it.

Awesome, I’ll check it out. Thank you.

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Thank you for these

I remember our discrete math text was so bad our class average for the first 3 exams was a 56.

Exactly!

Everything really. I guess I often wonder how to figure out what I don’t know since I was a CS major but never finished cause I ran out of money.

must read SWE-adjacent books?

Can I please stop living in CK3

But yeah, I live in California now, pivoted to SRE and the cloud, had gotten laid off, looking at emigrating to Europe/Australia.

Looks hot

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

Lol

How’ve you been? Sorry I’d been so disconnected. It has been *a whirlwind* hahah

Morning. :)